According to the Bible in which season was Jesus born?

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Actually the Bible does not give a specific date or even season for Jesus' birth. From what Bible historians and scholars have discovered, Christ was born closer to mid or late sping. Exact dates can be argued but that would be the time. The Catholic church moved the date in order to compete with several pagan holidays and a well known jewish holiday. This does not and should not ruin your celibration of christmas. The important thing is that we celabrate it and the real meaning.

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In what month and on what day of the month was he born?

Not one of his biographers is prepared to tell; primitive Christians did not know; the church has never been able to determine this. A hundred different opinions regarding it have been expressed by Christian scholars. Wagenseil places it in February, Paulius in March, Greswell in April, Lichtenstein in June, Strong in August, Lightfoot in September, and Newcome in October. Clinton says that he was born in the spring, Larchur says that he was born in the fall. Some early Christians believed that it occurred on the 5th of January; others the 19th of April; others still on the 20th of May. The Eastern church believed that he was born on the 7th of January. The church of Rome, in the fourth century, selected the 25th of December on which to celebrate the anniversary of his birth; and this date has been accepted by the greater portion of the Christian world.

Source: http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/rmsbrg04.htm

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According to Luke 2:8 the shepherds were out in the fields watching their flocks at night. This is apparently unlikely to take place in the winter and is thought by some to have been late September, which would make the end of December of the previous year as the time of the miracle of the incarnation. The adoption of December 25 has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual date of Jesus' birth. This is not an unusual thing even in modern times as a holiday for the birthday of the Queen Elizabeth II of England is not held on her actual birthday either.

Nor is it significant at all that the date is not known as the fact of both Jesus' birth and death and glorious resurrection are more important to the writers and their meaning, not the actual date. This was common practice for ancient writers -to only focus on key events in a life or in the history of a nation. In any case, September would be autumn in Israel.

from JoJmnz144:

He was born in the Feast of Tabernacles or the Festival of Booths (SUKKOT). This is one of the Feastdays mandated by G-D for all Israel to observe annually. Jews, even, today are required to build a "sukka" or temporary booth/shelter close on three sides and open to the skies. They can sleep, eat or lounge inside throughout the night. Yeshua was probably birthed in one of those "sukkas" at that time. All male Jews are also required to make the pilgrimage to the Temple at this time. One of three required annual pilgrimages. I f you want some reading materials on this, let me know.

John Chapter 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and tabernacled^* among us And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us

tabernacled^* : the actual word used here was sukkotai. Sukkot is a noun word, yet in this verse it was turn into a verb the only time it was used as such.

One of the chief reason why the church or christians could not comprehend this fact was because they tried to claim the Bible as Christian. It is not. It is Jewish and it belongs to Israel/Jews. The words, the context of the Bible is 100% Jewish and can only be interpreted/understood if read through the lens of Judaism/Jewish life.

The Bible is about the Torah, Israel's Covenants, Israel's Governments and Offices, Israel's Mandates and most of all Israel's History and promised future. Yeshua and all of His teachings belongs to Israel. The New Testament / Covenant, therefore belongs even to Israel.

As The Feast of Tabernacles is a seven-day Biblical pilgrimage festival, it also significant that the eight day is to be observed as " holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD". All male Jews are required to be circumsized eight days after their birth and offered to the Temple. So the first day is a High Shabbat and the Eight day is also a High Shabbat: The day of BIRTH and the day of the CIRCUMCISION.

Leviticus 23:33-43 states:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah

http://bible.cc/philippians/3-5.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Tabernacles_(Christian_holiday) :

see what I mean? This Feast was given to Israel, so how can it be christian/gentile?

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